The King and the Crown of Thorns: Kingship and the Cult of Relics in Capetian France

ISBN-13: 9783631832646 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 574 str.

Jan Burzynski; Sylwia Twardo; Jerzy Pysiak

Opis

The translation celebrations were a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of the French kingship. The book discusses the translation of the Crown of Thorns on the background of both Carolingian historical memory in Capetian era and Carolingian and Capetian tradition of the royal cult of relics.

Spis treści

Louis IX of France - cult of relics in mediaeval Europe - Crown of Thorns - Passion relics - French kingship - Capetian France - Paris - Saint-Denis Abbey - Charlemagne - Charles the Bald - mediaeval hagiography - mediaeval chronicle - Iter Hierosolimitanum Karoli Magni - Carolingians - Capetians - crusade - translatio imperii - history and memory

O autorze

Jerzy Pysiak

1999: PhD University of Warsaw; 2013: Habilitation Degree at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw.

1999-2020: Assistant Professor at the Institute of History, UW, from 2020 at the Faculty of Arts and Culture, UW.

Guest Professor at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris; Université Lumière Lyon 2; Université de Nantes; Comenius Universisty, Bratislava.